Emília Sičáková-Beblavá

Emília Sičáková-Beblavá (born 1975 in Snina, Czechoslovakia) is a professor of Public Policy at the Comenius University in Bratislava and an authors. She is a prominent anti-corruption activist and a former head of the Slovak chapter of the Transparency International. Currently, she is a professor at the Institute of Public Policy, Department of Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2022, she published a book of short stories from her region of birth - Zemplín, with title "Korene" (Roots). In 2025, she published a second book, novella from Eastern Slovakia about a real case of civic resistance to a waste dump project during the Communist times. It is called "Smetisko" ("Waste Dump") and was likened by a reviewer to "Erin Brockovich of Slovakia".